Team Openings

Please find openings on the Know Your IX team below. We particularly encourage people from marginalized groups, including but not limited to people with disabilities, people of color, trans people, queer people, first- or second-generation immigrants (including undocumented people), and people from low income families, to apply. We also encourage students from types of schools often overlooked in discussions of campus violence, and survivors of forms of sexual and gender-based violence commonly ignored by anti-violence efforts (relationship abuse, same-sex violence, etc.) to apply. Know Your IX is a student-driven campaign, so we will prioritize applications from those currently or recently enrolled as students.

Organizer

Know Your IX is a survivor- and youth-led group that empowers students to end gender violence in their schools. We envision a world in which all students can pursue their civil right to educations free from violence and harassment. We draw upon the civil rights law Title IX as an alternative to the criminal legal system — one that is more just and responsive to the educational, emotional, financial, and stigmatic harms of violence.

Our organizers work to:
– Educate college and high school students in the United States about their legal rights to safe educations free from gender-based harms;
– Train, organize, and support student survivor activists in challenging their educational institutions to address violence and discrimination;
– Advocating for policy change at the campus, state, and federal levels to ensure meaningful systemic action to end gender violence.

We are looking rad, young activists to join each of Know Your IX’s teams—Development and Communications, Policy and Advocacy, Student Engagement—for the 2017-2018 year! This is an exciting volunteer opportunity for a young organizer to train young people about their rights, build and mobilize our student IX Campus Action Network in federal and state level advocacy efforts, and ensure that student and survivor voices are at the center of media conversations relating to campus sexual violence.

Requirements:
– Must be available to attend and fully participate in the September Urban Retreat (14 – 18)
– Ability to work well remotely on a team
– Contribute 5-7 hours per week on average with some variation (e.g. the week of a bill hearing will require more hours, but the week after would be fewer).
– Experience working in anti-sexual violence activism, and/or organizing within other anti-violence movements (e.g, climate, economic justice, police and prisons, anti-war)
– Participating in weekly staff calls and meetings

We particularly encourage people from marginalized groups, including but not limited to people with disabilities, people of color, trans people, queer people, first- or second-generation immigrants (including undocumented people), and people from low income families, to apply. We also encourage students from types of schools often overlooked in discussions of campus violence, and survivors of forms of sexual and gender-based violence commonly ignored by anti-violence efforts (relationship abuse, same-sex violence, etc.) to apply. All KYIX organizers will receive a stipend each semester and a s scholarship to cover all costs related to attending annual youth organizing conference Urban Retreat.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: We will be accepting applications on a rolling basis.